This film is of interest primarily because it contains within it the entire surviving footage of an unfinished 1974 film by the same director, Slave of Love, which was successfully remade shortly thereafter by another director, Nikita Mikhalkov.The "cover" story is about a woman (Jeanne Moreau) newly released from prison camps in the 1940s back into Russian society, who finds that there is no place for her in the world she has come back to. However, this painterly film is so filled with striking and surreal imagery that it would be misleading to say that the story is of any great importance in relation to that.
Cast
Natalya Leble
Natasha
Jeanne Moreau
Woman
Yelena Solovey
Silent Film Star
Viktor Sibilyov
Young Man
Gregory Hlady
(as Grigoriy Gladiy)
Irina Pechernikova
Unknown
Natalya Fateeva
Unknown
Yuriy Solomin
Unknown
Aleksandr Slastin
Unknown
Muza Krepkogorskaya
Unknown
Mariya Kapnist
Unknown
Olga Volkova
Unknown
Mariya Vinogradova
Unknown
Natalya Kolyakanova
Unknown
Svetlana Nemolyaeva
Unknown
Anna Aleksakhina
Unknown
Tatyana Drubich
Unknown
Grigory Konstantinopolsky
Unknown
Yelena Koreneva
Unknown
Pyotr Mamonov
Unknown
Olga Orlova
Unknown
Elena Valyushkina
Unknown
Mikhail Tikhonov
Unknown
Aleksandr Zuev
Unknown
Vladislav Vetrov
Unknown
Emmanuil Vitorgan
Unknown
Yuriy Vorobyov
Unknown
Vyacheslav Bogachyov
Unknown
Tatyana Samoylova
Unknown
Aleksandr Feklistov
Unknown
Yelena Shanina
Unknown
Valentina Ushakova
Unknown
Zoya Isayeva
Unknown
Viktor Uralsky
Unknown
Gennadiy Nilov
Unknown
Nikolai Izvolov
Unknown
Tatyana Kuznetsova
Unknown
Crew
Rustam Khamdamov
Director, Writer, Production Design
Inessa Brozhovskaya
Editor
Yury Klimenko
Director of Photography
Viktor Chemendryakov
Additional Director of Photography
Tamara Vladimirtseva
Assistant Director
Serge Silberman
Producer
Vladimir Murzin
Production Design
Alexandr Zagoskin
Production Design
Pavel Kaplevich
Production Design
Ilya Minkovetski
Camera Operator
Elena Ivanova
Makeup Artist
Vitali Morozov
Sound Director
Aleksandr Vustin
Original Music Composer
